The year that was, 2016

Well, I think most people would agree that 2016 sucked. I'll certainly be glad to see the back of it. Aside from the various events we all know about, it's also the year I lost two members of my family. Focusing on the positives though, I have moved jobs and reconnected with a lot of friends many of whom I've not been in contact with for many years. The point of this annual post is to remind myself of things I do to flex my creative muscles and prove to myself that I don't just spent my time watching videos on YouTube and playing Gauntlet.

• 13 posts on this blog (14 including this one)
• another year of the Year in Pictures site, with doubled the number of contributors
• created a book out of the 2015 Year in Pictures posts
• contributed to a few open source projects, including libraries.io
• well over 200 contributions to my github account
• wrote and delivered two sermons
• wrote and GMed a roughly monthly 5th Ed D&D game
• restarted my instagram account
• loads of photos on my flickr stream
• updated my website and Gareth's website
• plenty of game recording, with sadly little to no video editing
• some small voiceover work

And I went back to doing some serious exercise and started playing a lot of board games again, not to mention the time spent acting as the Treasurer (and member of the PCC) of my church.

Resolution count: 2/10 - appalling.

I spent a lot of time on technical things and photography this year at the cost of writing. Next year I want to step up the writing and draw some more maps.